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Australian vineyard uses ocean floor as wine cellar

17:52 pm on 1 August 2022

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Booze overboard - sounds more like an accident than a strategy. But one Australian vineyard is using the ocean floor as a cellar, dropping its sparkling wine into the sea near Augusta in Western Australia.

And after more than a year submerged the drinkable treasure is "gold" complete with coral and crustacean.

Sacha and Ben McDonald from Glenarty Road Vineyard were sampling a bit of their own product when they came up with the idea.